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Irene Hays Quotes

born 1954 England

Irene Hays DBE DL (née Lucas; born 4 February 1954) is a British businesswoman and former civil servant. She is the owner and chair of Hays Travel, the largest independent travel agent in the UK, which she jointly owned with her husband John Hays until his death in 2020.

England
Businesswomen

Random Irene Hays quote

5 quotes

“The people currently running the council are not interested in empty rhetoric, they just want to get things done.”

“The reason why I am so passionate about apprentices and apprenticeships is that they have added the goods all the way through my career."

"I feel this really isn't an award just for me, it's for all the people who have created the right environment for all those people to succeed and the apprentices and the young people themselves."

"I think that people pay too much attention to getting academic qualifications - not everyone can get them. There is a place in that whole system for well run apprenticeship schemes."

“I think I was seen as someone who got things done, a problem solver, but from my point of view that always involved getting the right people around the table.”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Irene Hays (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.